The crowd gradually separated, and Ma Jianliang saw that the crowd consciously stood on both sides, without any guards coming to clear the way. In the distance, he saw a huge, low-key, luxurious and noble phoenix floating in the air.

It was a black flag, but it had red lines; the red lines spread across the entire flag like flames, forming the figure of a flaming phoenix.

Then I saw two rows of black-armored long-geared guards walking slowly and neatly. In the center of the team, there were nine fiery red top demon horses, dragging a huge carriage. The carriage was three feet long.

It is four feet wide, and there is a three-story building on top of the carriage!

The carriage is also black as a whole, but it is covered with exquisite red lines. The lines are feather-like and flame-like. The structure is intermittent and full of an indescribable mysterious color. It makes the carriage full of a deep atmosphere and luxury.

, mystery, and the high spirits of being reborn from the ashes.

Queen!

These two words suddenly appeared in Ma Jianliang's mind. Although Ma Jianliang had heard of the Queen's name before, like most people of this era, when he heard about the Queen for the first time, he was a little disdainful - a woman can govern well.

This country?

But after seeing the royal father, Ma Jianliang's heart skipped a beat, and an indescribable solemnity arose in his heart.

Different from the ordinary emperors who like to use bright yellow, yellow, and light yellow, Liu Xinyu actually uses black and red. At a glance, it is so different.

The phoenix on the flag was reborn from the ashes, with its head raised to the sky, but with a posture of looking down on all living beings. This is more domineering than those dragon shapes.

The most important thing is that the nine horses are lined up in a row, driving all the way along the wide highway. In other countries, due to road restrictions, the nine horses are arranged in threes and threes, and the imperial carriage is naturally much smaller.

Liu Xinyu's Imperial Palace is like a small palace, with a looming formation barrier on it, and the base is actually made of I-beam steel beams, which hold up the heavy car body, and it is extraordinary in every aspect.

There are nine huge steel wheels under the frame. There is a guide wheel in the front, and eight thick wheels in the rear support the heavy frame.

The carriage slowly stopped, and Liu Xinyu stepped on the magic-condensed steps, walked down step by step, and came to the shore.

Zhang Hao has already led the main representatives of Dayang Group to greet him.

Liu Xinyu nodded to Zhang Hao, looking at the giant ship slowly approaching the shore in the distance, she was fascinated for a moment. Because the giant ship was still an empty shell, the side of the ship was 12 meters above the water.

Upon closer inspection, the giant steel ship looks like a steel city wall stretching in front of you. The rivets on it clearly demonstrate the power of industry and steel.

The multi-riveted steam-steel giant ships at the beginning of industrial development were a kind of rough steel art. Compared with the exquisitely designed ships in the future, the current ships reveal the domineering power of steel.

The vertical sides of the ship, the rigid lines, and the true nature of steel all tell the story of the power of the steel industry.

Compared with the Zhiyuan battleship, the new "Iron Duke" is a real giant. The length of 110 meters to 160 meters is almost double the difference visually. With the wide deck area, it looks like a mobile ship on the sea.

land.

Liu Xinyu admired it for a long time, and finally stared at the four words "Iron Duke" on the side of the ship. Her eyes narrowed slightly, but she asked in a relaxed and playful tone: "Why such a name? It sounds... weird."

"This is the name given by His Majesty!" Zhang Hao said with a smile.

"When...oh...I told you when the Reach returned for the first time! (Chapter 294)"

Zhang Hao said with a smile: "The words Iron Duke make me feel His Majesty's tolerance. And naming it 'Iron Duke' also has a profound meaning - although it is a giant on the sea, it is only a part of the country of Qixia."

.He is nothing more than a Duke."

Liu Xinyu smiled and nodded, the vigilance in her eyes disappeared, and she accepted Zhang Hao's statement. "I'll go up and have a look."

"Wait a minute, Your Majesty..." Zhang Hao quickly said, "This battleship is on its first sea trial, and I'm not sure if there are any problems. This..."

"I'm not afraid!" Liu Xinyu said and walked towards the port. Zhang Hao had no choice but to walk towards the port together.

The giant ship slowly docked at the port. It was very difficult to completely control such a huge ship, so it was inevitable to borrow some spells when docking. After the ship was stable, she climbed up the steps, and Liu Xinyu climbed up the steps.

Arriving on the boat, Liu Xinyu couldn't help but take a deep breath: there were no bumps, no sway like ordinary wooden boats, it was like walking on flat ground.

Liu Xinyu walked directly to the bow of the ship, and Dugu Junjie had to put down his arrogant attitude and come to greet him.

Liu Xinyu waved her hand: "Captain Dugu, you are busy with your own business."

"Yes." Dugu Junjie took three steps back before turning around and getting busy.

When passing by Zhang Hao, Zhang Hao told Dugu Junjie: All tests must not be reduced. Liu Xinyu is different from ordinary women. If the test is reduced, Liu Xinyu will be dissatisfied.

Sure enough, after hearing Zhang Hao's words, Liu Xinyu showed a smile on her face. Yes, she came here not to enjoy, but to truly feel the power of this '10,000-ton giant ship'!

Because Liu Xinyu still remembered Zhang Hao's words: Only a 10,000-ton giant ship can hope to cross the Green Sea of ​​Death and open up its own route.

The transaction carried out by the Zhiyuan can only be said to be a 'docking', and it is not considered opening a new route. In Zhang Hao's plan, the battleship will go south to find the west coast of the southern Tutu Continent. There is

An undeveloped area!

The east and north of Taotu Continent are already maturely developed. This means that there are complex vested interests in the area, and it is very difficult for Qixia Country to occupy a place here. Therefore, for the time being, it can only conduct maritime transactions to meet its urgent needs.

Zhang Hao's real plan is to occupy the routes in the outer sea and form control of them, and then surround the inland sea from the outer sea.

The Dayang Group will obtain massive resources from the west coast of the Taotu Continent and transport them back to the country to refine them into elixirs. The Kingdom of Qixia has very powerful elixir refining capabilities, but there were not enough resources in the past.

This organization with powerful alchemy capabilities is...Xinglintang!

Zhang Hao was still thinking, but the giant ship had begun to exert force, and a faint roar that could only be barely noticed at the Nascent Soul stage began to be heard.

The heavy battleship began to accelerate and move forward slowly. Suddenly there was the sound of footsteps, and Taoist Master Mingxu, Liu Dingshan, and Chen Yansong were seen walking out of the cabin together.

Liu Xinyu hurriedly came forward to pay homage.

Liu Dingshan touched Liu Xinyu's head dotingly, "Unknowingly, I have become a queen, and I also have a 10,000-ton battleship. The next step is to go south and open up a route to the Tuotu Continent. This guy Zhang Hao actually still

The plan is to go all the way south along the west coast of Taotu Continent, saying that we want to find a continent further south.

Xiaoyu, I was very excited after hearing what Zhang Hao said. The country... finally sees hope."

"Grandpa!" Liu Xinyu held Liu Dingshan's hand and said seriously, "I will definitely make this country strong. One day, I will ask all nations to come to Korea!"

"Yes, yes!" Liu Dingshan and Liu Xinyu walked side by side to the bow of the ship.

Zhang Hao glanced at his master, Taoist Master Mingxu: Why did Liu Dingshan suddenly feel so bitter?

Taoist priest Mingxu smiled and patted Zhang Hao on the shoulder: "Iron Duke!"

Zhang Hao:......

"Haha..." Taoist Master Mingxu laughed.

Zhang Hao glanced at Chen Yansong who was lagging behind in confusion: What are you three doing down there?

As a result, Chen Yansong also patted Zhang Hao on the shoulder and shouted: "Iron Duke!"

"Why do I sound like an iron rooster..."

"I didn't say that! Haha..." After saying that, Chen Yansong also went to the bow of the ship. The displacement of the 10,000-ton steel giant ship may still not be comparable to that of the extra-large merchant ships in the inland sea; but this is a warship, this is steel

battleship!

A few minutes later, the power of the giant ship had been fully increased. Zhang Hao could also hear a low roar, and the giant ship began to accelerate.

At this time, the outfitting of the giant ship has not yet been completed, but its dead weight is still more than 3,000 tons. The giant ship is pushing away from the sea little by little, and its speed is getting faster and faster.

The craftsmen stick to their posts and closely supervise every corner of the giant ship. Water leaks, structural deformations, etc. all require close supervision. And if there is a problem, the person in charge can be found.

During the battleship construction process, there are detailed records of who did what.

The giant ship sprinted straight towards the deep sea, and it did not reach its speed limit until it reached more than 30 kilometers. At this time, the speed was a full 68 kilometers per hour, which was 6 kilometers faster than the basic speed of the Zhiyuan battleship.

Liu Xinyu felt the bow of the ship for a while, then entered the cabin to visit. After turning around, she looked at the steam turbine and boiler system with complex pipelines in front, and was a little confused: "Why use such complicated equipment? It still takes up space. I

Remember that the Zhiyuan battleship uses a spiritual stone-driven turbine, right?"

Zhang Hao explained: "Because the power of the turbine driven by the spirit stone has reached its limit for the time being. If you want to continue to increase the power, you need to carve more complex formations, which is very cumbersome to make.

More formations mean more calculations. However, Huang Mingshan and others are temporarily unable to perform such complex calculations.

If you want to increase the capacity of the turbine driven by spiritual stones and formations, it can be said that it has exceeded the temporary limit of technology.

We tried to make it later, but the consumption of spiritual stones increased significantly, but the increase in power was not obvious. If we replaced the intermediate spiritual stones like the formation, the cost would be too expensive.

In fact, there is a newly built spare spirit stone driving turbine on the Iron Duke. When using medium-grade spirit stones, it can output the power of two early Nascent Souls. But the consumption of spirit stones is too great."

Liu Xinyu frowned slightly: "Calculation limit? I remember Huang Mingshan and others have calculated the Heaven-Sealing and Earth-Sealing Formation. Is the calculation of a steam turbine more complicated than the Heaven-Sealing and Earth-Sealing Formation?"

Zhang Hao nodded affirmatively: "It's at least ten times more complicated! The reason why we are willing to sell steam turbines, especially turbines driven by spiritual stones, is because we have concluded that others cannot decipher and calculate the complicated formation relationships."

Liu Xinyu nodded slowly. "So what are the advantages of a steam turbine? I think the system is so complicated, and the calculation amount is not small, right?"

"The amount of calculations is not small, but many of them are repeated calculations. The biggest advantage of steam turbines is simplicity. For example, if you want to increase power, you only need to increase the amount of steam, increase the temperature, and increase the pressure. In theory, you can increase it without limit.

Of course, there are still many things to pay attention to due to practical issues such as size and safety. But relatively speaking, it is relatively simple.

Especially for steam turbines, our technology is the most mature and we have many standard parts, universal molds, etc., which can enable rapid mass production.

The Iron Duke currently uses a total of four steam boilers and three steam turbines, and the fuel is high-quality diesel that contains a lot of spiritual energy.

The maximum power can reach the power of 10 early Nascent Souls."

"Diesel? What is this?"

"This... it's a bit complicated to say. I'll arrange for someone to explain it to Your Majesty after we get off the ship.

Roughly speaking, in terms of mechanical power, diesel can replace spirit stones. Its energy content is equivalent to 100 spirit stones per cubic meter.

However, according to actual tests, the energy utilization efficiency of Lingshi is less than 50%; while the energy utilization efficiency of diesel can reach 70%. Moreover, the cost price of diesel is only one Lingshi per cubic meter.

And because diesel is liquid, it is very convenient to store and transfer. The pipeline can be directly connected from the oil storage tank to the boiler."

Liu Xinyu Ruowei asked: "How many pieces of spiritual stone are there in one cubic meter?"

"The standard cutting size of a piece of spirit stone is one inch. The side length of three pieces of spirit stone is 10 centimeters. Because one cubic meter of spirit stone is 30x30x30, which is 2700 pieces.

In other words, the energy of one cubic meter of spiritual stone is approximately equivalent to the energy of 27 cubic meters of diesel."

Liu Xinyu continued to ask: "Don't battleships pursue ultimate combat effectiveness? Isn't it too wasteful to use diesel fuel? Isn't it good to use spiritual stones?

Although it consumes a lot of money, the spirit stone turbine system is simpler and the spirit stone takes up less space.

If the power is insufficient, just add a few more turbines. Ten turbines, twenty turbines, wouldn’t that work?”

Zhang Hao smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, technology is not a simple superposition. Just like war horses, the maximum speed of a carriage drawn by ordinary war horses is only 100 kilometers. Even if a hundred war horses are added, the speed will not increase much;

They may even interfere with each other.

If you want to increase the speed at this time, you should replace it with a high-level war horse such as a demon horse."

Liu Xinyu nodded slowly: "I probably understand."

The battleship began its ultimate test on the sea. After more than two hours of wild racing, it finally slowly docked. The Queen came down, and the first batch of lucky people began to board the ship. Among them was Ma Jianliang.

When Ma Jianliang stepped on the deck, Zhang Hao had already taken Liu Xinyu to visit the oil refining base.

At this time, the oil refining base has begun to take shape, the technology is relatively mature, and the output is considerable. The products of the oil refining are used at all levels of the Zhang family, including iron making, steel making, etc., and also naphtha used for alchemy.

After reading it, Liu Xinyu suddenly laughed: "No wonder some time ago, the Zhang family bought mines that were 'digging off the earth's veins'. Sure enough, they were... profiteers!"

Zhang Hao argued: "This is the power of knowledge!"

"Okay. So, can I apply for a batch of loans, purchase the license for the Zhang family's oil refining technology, and build a refinery plant?"

Zhang Hao was stunned: What, Queen, do you want to apply for a loan?

(After a few days of exhaustion, I have adjusted. Thank you all for your support.
Chapter completed!